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Discover Haiti: Haiti History - The Conquistadors -Spanish Conquest - 0 views

  • On Christmas night, his biggest ship, the Santa Maria sank on a harbor of the island.
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      that was a great chrismas present. now his biggest ship sank
  • His goal was to bring to the Spaniards "as much gold as they need...and as many slaves as they ask."
    • anthony anthony
       
      that was fd up in the movie he semes all nice but he was a real prick
  • Columbus had hoped to put down the resistance by kidnapping Caonabo the chief of the Cibao region and making an exemplary spectacle of him.
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      he just took the cheif of the cibao region thats kinda siko. thats just like kidnapping the president to stop a war
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  • Columbus and his brother Bartholomew as well as Alonso de Hojeda undertook a series of military expeditions all over the island. Villages that could not pay the tribute imposed on the Taino were brutally repressed.
    • anthony anthony
       
      that is just inhuman. this christopher columbus is alot different then the one in the movie
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EchodHaiti.com:History/Istwa: Haiti, Pre-Columbus - 0 views

  • Lifestyle of the Arawak/Taino Housing and Dress Food and Agriculture Transportation Defense Religion and Myth The genocidal end of the Arawak/Taino Specific Indian leaders at the time of Columbus(The five caciques of the time)
    • anthony anthony
       
      hey what about medican and sicknesses
  • They also ate snakes, various rodents, bats, worms, birds, in general any living things they could find with the exception of humans
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      i wonder how they got the posin out of the snakes
  • They not only had cotton, but they raised tobacco and enjoyed smoking very much. It was not only a part of their social life, but was used in religious ceremonies too.
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      so they smoke tobacco for religs reasons. i wish we could do that
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  • There are many stone religious artifacts which have been found in Haiti. The zemi take on strange forms like toads, turtles, snakes, alligators and various distorted and hideous human faces.
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      the are the oppisit from eygpt human bodie animal face taino animal bodies human faces,
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